old norse-icelandic literature a short introduction

... control, this area came to be known as the Danelaw – significantly, and perhaps unexpectedly, a name signifying a place where Scandinavian legal custom prevailed, not a wasteland of anarchy and terror. ... usual association of church burning and mass murder with the Scandinavian invaders. And though the earliest Scandinavian raiders would certainly have been pagans, Christianity had spre...

... the USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, India, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, France and South Africa, places with either an estab- lished or developing identity in the field. We have also ... the actual tasks and activities which are a part of each role and its related con- text. Our aim is to demonstrate the very wide range of work settings that are potentially available and releva...

... regard this maximum minimal margin algorithm as an illustrative approximation of AdaBoost. In fact, algorithms that explicitly attempt to maximize minimal margin have not been experimentally as successful ... convert a weak learning algorithm (which can always generate a hypothesis with a weak edge for any distribution) into a strong learning algorithm (which can generate a hypothes...

... Desta’s father grows maize and teff (a staple cereal unique to Ethiopia) on half a hectare of land that the government has awarded him. Desta’s older brother helps him to farm the land and care ... per person there has been about 1.7%. In sad contrast, income per capita in Ethiopia is about the same today as it was 200 year ago (a little over $700 a year today), a fact that is reflecte...

... are playing a driving game. Bargain-hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm and a union negotiating next year’s wage are playing a bargaining game. When opposing candidates ... Nash equilibria is circular. Why does Alice play this way? Because Bob plays that way. Why does Bob play that way? Because Alice plays this way. Various Latin tags are available to those w...

... between geology and meteorology, with torrential rainfall destabilizing already weak slopes. Although there remains an enormous amount to learn about natural hazards, their causes and characteristics, ... structures that suffer a direct hit can withstand the average wind speeds of up to 500 kilometres an hour, and damage along a tornado track is usually total. Although rarely as lethal as...